Table 324.25.

Doctor's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: Academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21

Field of study	2019-20										2020-21
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/Alaska Native	Two or more races	Nonresident	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/Alaska Native	Two or more races	Nonresident
					Total	Asian	Pacific Islander								Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
All fields, total	190,133	107,823	15,719	14,865	21,609	21,308	301	674	5,498	23,945	194,059	108,082	17,041	16,465	22,533	22,258	275	690	5,769	23,479
Agriculture and natural resources1	4,884	3,329	120	346	230	226	4	17	135	707	4,869	3,393	138	348	227	223	4	17	135	611
Architecture and related services	252	83	12	13	24	23	1	0	1	119	255	78	9	15	19	17	2	0	4	130
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	334	130	63	37	19	19	0	6	14	65	268	108	40	32	18	16	2	6	14	50
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,899	4,122	288	509	711	704	7	16	226	2,027	7,486	3,936	267	558	670	665	5	20	212	1,823
Business2	3,443	1,401	806	206	183	178	5	17	78	752	3,711	1,480	1,004	239	175	172	3	14	91	708
Communication, journalism, and related programs	602	320	39	27	25	24	1	0	16	175	532	267	42	22	25	25	0	3	21	152
Communications technologies	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences and support services	2,415	660	103	54	149	146	3	2	49	1,398	2,572	654	144	78	182	181	1	1	31	1,482
Education	13,051	7,507	2,742	1,195	496	461	35	59	287	765	13,655	7,436	3,227	1,270	560	519	41	73	340	749
Engineering	11,144	3,000	173	340	745	743	2	7	147	6,732	10,890	2,936	180	370	685	682	3	8	176	6,535
Engineering technologies3	143	72	8	2	16	16	0	0	0	45	205	72	20	1	23	23	0	1	0	88
English language and literature/letters	1,285	929	75	71	47	45	2	3	45	115	1,079	733	63	69	42	41	1	6	39	127
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	281	158	22	13	8	8	0	0	7	73	233	107	32	21	10	10	0	2	14	47
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,162	532	17	128	50	49	1	2	17	416	985	415	21	122	40	40	0	2	23	362
Health professions and related programs	82,466	49,116	6,388	6,082	15,168	15,007	161	261	2,685	2,766	85,581	49,832	6,848	7,152	16,007	15,862	145	278	2,758	2,706
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	263	149	56	23	3	2	1	2	5	25	239	139	60	20	3	2	1	0	7	10
Legal professions and studies	34,450	22,426	2,906	4,177	2,258	2,207	51	201	1,135	1,347	35,976	23,651	2,774	4,381	2,405	2,362	43	182	1,252	1,331
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	114	73	16	9	4	4	0	1	2	9	90	51	18	8	2	2	0	1	3	7
Library science	29	12	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	15	12	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Mathematics and statistics	2,021	663	33	58	125	124	1	1	32	1,109	1,958	649	26	75	109	109	0	1	33	1,065
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	990	512	86	60	48	48	0	7	34	243	1,055	550	83	73	60	58	2	3	19	267
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	349	231	22	22	8	8	0	2	13	51	326	203	28	17	10	9	1	0	14	54
Philosophy and religious studies	694	466	36	50	30	30	0	1	16	95	627	395	45	38	28	28	0	1	10	110
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,969	2,857	82	243	309	307	2	8	135	2,335	5,709	2,554	105	279	279	278	1	8	129	2,355
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	6,327	4,137	621	636	386	375	11	23	227	297	6,363	3,936	708	687	370	362	8	33	247	382
Public administration and social services	1,409	643	358	124	61	57	4	13	29	181	1,435	587	423	130	87	84	3	10	45	153
Social sciences and history	4,436	2,263	187	260	215	212	3	16	96	1,399	4,160	1,955	209	257	202	198	4	9	87	1,441
Social sciences	3,597	1,673	153	201	191	188	3	13	72	1,294	3,468	1,506	177	197	188	184	4	8	72	1,320
History	839	590	34	59	24	24	0	3	24	105	692	449	32	60	14	14	0	1	15	121
Theology and religious vocations	1,984	1,061	413	84	152	147	5	6	28	240	2,100	1,042	478	112	174	169	5	8	30	256
Transportation and materials moving	20	12	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	4	20	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Visual and performing arts	1,716	959	45	95	136	135	1	3	39	439	1,668	903	47	90	121	121	0	3	35	469
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1Includes Agricultural, animal, plant, veterinary science, and related fields; and Natural resources and conservation.

2Includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services; and Culinary, entertainment, and personal services.

3Includes Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields; Construction trades; and Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians.

NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data are for postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of study, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. Data in this table are based on the 2020 Classification of Instructional Programs. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2022.)